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Usually, GO-AO is a good enough indicator of how a pitcher would do in our park. If he is a flyball pitcher, he will not throw well...he can allow 10 homers all season, but if his GO-AO ratio is like 0.75, he will not pitch well in USCF.

Mark Buehrle is 25 years old...as many here probably know. At the age of 25, he already has 69 wins...as has been mentioned before. He also had an improved season this year, minus the extra hits he gave up. If he continued the pace he has set(which is 16.25 wins per full year of starting), he would end up with 228 more wins at the age of 40...or in other words, he would have 297 wins in his career, and would play another season just to get to 300. I'm not saying he's gonna be the next guy to get to 300 wins...not even close...just saying that he's got as good a chance as any in the league to win 300 games in his career in the future, and that says a lot, because he has not even reached 100 yet.

.1000...that's terrible. He fields 1 of every 10 balls hit at him. I could do that when I was 5. Gotta hate when you misplace a period.

Yeah it is. Hell, when we snipe auctions, we usually wait till there's 30 seconds left to even think about putting in a bid, and sometimes we wait even longer. I also remember another time that my dad got a bowling ball for $80.01 and he got the bid in with like 10 seconds left...the guy who had the second highest bid had his bid in for $80.00. Always cool to win an auction by a cent.

This bump fits. Thank you MB for proving Rector wrong!

LOL, let's just all be happy that the Cubs are losing. It brings a smile to my face knowing I don't have to worry about them trying to make it to the Series...in all likelyhood anyways.

If someone could find it, I'd like to see what these guys park adjusted ERA's are. I thought I like just saw it somewhere, but I can't seem to find it anymore

They whine and cry and blame it on stupid goats and on dumbass fans who try to catch foul balls, and then say "Wait till next year!" I don't think they're cursed. I just think that God thinks that it is funny when Cubs fans cry like that.

Hey Jordan...dish me some crow man...I didn't think Hawkins would suck as closer because he matured...good thing the dumbass proved me wrong.

Nope. This is the Twins fault. If the Twins hadn't put LaTroy Hawkins in a role where they knew he'd succeed, the Cubs wouldn't have signed him, and they would actually have a closer and a top notch setup guy, and they would already have this thing wrapped up. So, now both Chicago teams hate the Twins.

Same thing happened in 2002 between these same two teams, IIRC...but both were guaranteed playoff spots. This is way different from that. Should be interesting. I think Oakland will pull it out...not because they always do, but because they have money pitchers.

Because you can get incredible value for them, and you have replacements for them Or because you're stupid. It's usually the former...but not always.

Kerry Wood's run support: 4.66 per game Randy Johnson's run support: 3.86 per game Wood's run support - ERA = 1.08 Johnson's run support - ERA = 1.21 You also have to consider that Wood has been hurt for part of this year, so you have to take that into account when considering his wins. So basically, offense cannot be used to argue for either one...they've both been given roughly the same amount of run support per game. Also...just for my take on this...I do not think Wood will ever win 20 games until he learns to maintain some type of consistent control, and that will never happen. When you throw that many wasted pitches, you will not throw deep into games most of the time, which will give your bullpen a much better chance of blowing games. He will never consistently win a lot of games. Not saying he is a bad pitcher...I'm saying he will never win a lot of games.

Well now everyone knows why they do the rookie hazing...safety percautions.

If the games counted they would have been. Because we're out of it, KC LOSES!!! :rolly

I think it's funnier then hell that so much was made about Jose Hernandez potentially breaking it a couple years back, and was then sat so he wouldn't be criticized for it. This year, it's no big deal...probably because Dunn has hit 45 homers and has an OPS of .950 and is actually a real good player too. This is probably going to be good for Dunn, like losing 20 for the first time in a million years was for Maroth. He will be a better player for it.

Personally, I think getting those 2 trouble types is a risk that the White Sox should make, due to their value being so low, and their salary being so low. Guillen will make something like $3 or $4 mill next year, and Bradley will make probably around $1-2 mill. Add up just the high ends of those and it's still less then what Carlos Lee made last year, in the first year of his contract. By taking out Lee and Konerko from the equation, and adding in Gload, Bradley, and Guillen, you are saving around $9-10 mill, while getting probably the same production. Add to that that the offense actually becomes better, due to not having a seemingly automatic out in RF, and you see a huge improvement. That much freed money would allow the Sox to go after some big-time FA's, and, quite honestly, would give them enough money to pursue Pedro...I do not want them to get Pedro, just saying that they would have the money to get him if they wanted to. I do think they would probably end up trading Crede and Garland then, and getting some type of decent package for the two of them(or maybe trade them seperately, and getting a piece for each of them). They could then look at getting a replacement SP, a replacement 3B, and a replacement SS for Jose, along with still pursuing a good SP. The team would probably be make or break, but not make or break in the same sense that this year's team was make or break. They'd either gel, and would probably end up running away with the division, or they wouldn't gel, there would be inconsistency throughout the lineup, and they'd lose the division again and it would be time to tear the whole thing apart and start over.

I wonder if they knew he was an attorney when the sent him to jail. I can't believe that...that's BS. You now see why I dislike a lot of law officers.

I probably would make a Borchard for Bradley deal...but that is assuming that Borchard couldn't be apart of a trade that brought over Jose Guillen. I'm going to take Guillen over Bradley, so that's why I say that. Also...maybe this is just me blabbering...but does an OF of Bradley-Rowand-Guillen look very good to anyone else(once again, assuming the price is right for both players)?

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I think the Twins decision on Radke will be based completely on money...which most decisions are...and if he is too expensive, they may let him go. One thing I do think is a true possibility for Minnesota is to trade Torii Hunter...I don't expect it to happen, I don't think it will happen, hell, I don't even know why I thought of it...but there is a chance they could. He's scheduled to make somewere in the neighborhood of $8-10 mill, and they are paying that much for a guy who will hit .275 25 80 25 .800 with excellent defense and an excellent arm...and while those types of guys are very valuable, some team would overrate Hunter, pay a very steep price for his services, and see him put up those exact numbers. Meanwhile, the Twins would have the money to resign Radke, and would then have 4 good OF options next year...Stewart, Ford, Jones, and Kubel. As I said...I don't think it will happen, but you can't rule it out, just because Hunter's such a "lovable" guy(who grew up in the hoods down in Arkansas).

SS2k is right on the money. Jose was coming off a year where he hit like 28 homers, drove in 70 runs, played very good defense at SS, was in the last year of his deal, and even then was still affordable. Meanwhile, Garcia was going to given a raise in salary(which is less then what he will make next year, mind you) for having about his worst season ever. The Mariners were thinking that Piniero-Moyer-Franklin-Meche-5th starter(probably Villone or Mulholland) would have been good enough, and the fact that they actually had a good SS who could hit and play some defense along with a rock solid pen, including Shiggy in the 8th and Guardado in the 9th to close it out...they thought they would have looked real good going into the year. Kind of crazy that the deal was, in all likelyhood, turned down by the Sox because they didn't have a SS to replace Jose with...we had no idea what Uribe or Harris would do, and the Sox needed insurance. You think it sounds crazy because Garcia was flat out dominant in April and May with the Mariners, while Jose has been in a gigantic slump over the last 2 months, and has really shown that he is not the same player anymore...or atleast that pitchers have finally figured him out. While the Mariners struggled mightily this year, they got lucky enough to prove one thing...you NEVER trade a player when his value is low...you trade players when their value is the lowest it will ever be, or when it is high. Basically, all that's saying is that Konerko was going to probably be available this offseason no matter what numbers he put up this year...the only thing that would change is what we would get for him. If he had another .235 20 60 .700 season, we'd get a bag of balls for him while paying part of his 2005 salary...as it is, we are looking at a very good package of players that we may end up getting for him.

I don't know about the eat half his salary thing, but I'm sure that the Reds would, at the very least, consider Borchard and Escobar for Griffey. You guys think Erstad's the human hospital...and somehow Griffey is not worse.

He's also 24 and was one of Cincinatti's shining stars coming through the minor leagues. He's not going anywhere, unless the Reds are either overwhelmed in a deal, or someone agrees to take on Griffey's contract in full(and while that hasn't been stated anywhere, it is just a hunch that I have).

I'd just like to add that Odalis Perez is probably the most underrated starting pitcher available in FA, and probably will be the biggest sleeper in FA too. His numbers do not jump out at you initially due to him only having single-digit wins...but I'm sure if someone did the math, there is a strong possibility that he could have 15 or 16 wins already...at the very least, a lot more wins then he has now. He could take some team's rotation from formidable to very good. Another thing...I think Radke will be the most solid, and will pitch well wherever he goes next year. Basically, I'm saying that if we signed Radke and Perez, that we would have like the best rotation in the majors, bar none...this is, of course, assuming we got rid of Garland and got some decent value from him. It would cost a ton of money to do this...but part of this would be to get rid of a few of our big money players...most notably, Konerko, probably Everett too, and ruling out CLee in being dealt would be bad too, though I actually do not want to see him dealt.